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Description: | This painting is a typical Victorian genre scene, where a moral lesson is to be learnt by the viewer. Paintings like this were very popular in the nineteenth century- it was a time of great change and artists were expected to uphold traditional moral values in their work.
Oil painting showing a group of children gathered on a street. An elder man attempts to establish which of the boys has broken the window. Two boys hide around the corner looking guilty. |
License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ |
Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service |
Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service |
Subjects: | Houses Fine arts Childhood Men Boys Punishment Women Oil painting Oil Paintings Adults Children Buildings Towns Victorian period Streets Windows Elderly people People and roles Roads Villages Paintings Narrative painting People Art collections |
Temporal: | 1855
Victorian (1837-1901) |
Source: | Black Country History |
Creator: | KNIGHT; William Henry (1823 - 1863) |
Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... |
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